History VideoGame / MonsterBash

%%** BubblyClouds: Level 3-8.

* AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: The knife-tossing hands.
* BadassAdorable: Johnny Dash himself.
** He's very cute, although he [[BerserkButton hates being called that]].

* BratsWithSlingshots: Johnny is a young boy and he uses a slingshot as his weapon.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Literally. See "CameraAbuse" below.

* [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Did You Just Gib Cthulhu with a Slingshot?]]

* EvilTwin: Johnny's Nemesis, who appears once an episode.
* FireAndBrimstoneHell: The first several stages of the second episode.

* InvincibleMinorMinion: These are many and varied.

* MonsterMash: Duh.

* {{Shareware}}

* UniqueEnemy: The dragon in the fourth stage.

* VideoGameSettings:
** AbandonedLaboratory: Levels 2-8 and 2-9.
** AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Level 1-10 and the last section of 3-5.
** BigBoosHaunt: Levels 1-7, 1-8, 1-9, and 3-5.
** BigFancyCastle: Levels 2-6 and 2-7.
** BossOnlyLevel: Levels 1-10, 2-3, and 2-9. Surprisingly, the final level isn't one.
** BubblyClouds: Level 3-8.
** BubblegloopSwamp[=/=]SwampsAreEvil: Levels 3-3 and 3-4.
** DerelictGraveyard: Levels 1-1 and 1-2.
** FireAndBrimstoneHell[=/=]PlanetHeck: Levels 2-1, 2-2, and 2-3.
** FloatingContinent: Level 3-8.
** GimmickLevel: Level 3-8 again, the gimmick being that [[spoiler:you can fly on a broom]].
** TheLostWoods: Levels 1-3 and 3-2.
** MarathonLevel: Level 1-9. To put things in perspective, most levels have a par time of somewhere between 2-7 minutes, and 1-9 has a par time of ''30'' minutes.
** UndergroundLevel: Levels 1-4, 1-5, 2-5, 3-6, 3-7, and 3-9 (which is [[AlienGeometries somehow]] accessed from a fortress in the sky).

* WallMaster: The hands that throw knives.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: In the fourth stage, there is a sleeping dragon who will OneHitKill you unless you crawl past it. Just one dragon. In the middle of a horror setting.

* SequelHook: After his defeat, Count Chuck warns Johnny that while he may have won the battle, he hasn't yet won the war, then states that he has in-laws.

* TakeThat: Johnny mentions living down the street from ''VideoGame/JillOfTheJungle'', and instantly suspects her of the pet kidnappings when he finds out about it.

The first episode of the game can be downloaded for free at [[http://www.3drealms.com/bash/index.html Apogee's official website]]. No relation to the pinball machine ''Pinball/MonsterBash'' or any virtual re-creations of it, nor to the coin-op video game.

* PajamaCladHero

* AsteroidsMonster: The green sludge monsters.

%%* BratsWithSlingshots

''Monster Bash'' was a sidescrolling platformer released by Apogee Software for the PC in 1993. The game stars [[KidHero 10-year-old]] Johnny Dash (Probably no relation to Music/JohnnyCash) on a quest to rescue his puppy, Tex, from the evil [[FluffyTheTerrible Count Chuck]], who plans to turn all the pets of the Day World into monsters. Armed with only a slingshot and an endless supply of rocks, Johnny must travel through 28 levels of undead horrors.

* XenomorphXerox: The monsters that show up on level 3-2 a unmistakably (and bafflingly) xenomorphs.

* UInwinnableByDesign: In episode 1 level 8, the level hints tell you that the triple shot weapon is "very helpful" for freeing pets. What they ''don't'' tell you is that there is one otherwise-unreachable pet that cannot be freed any other way. To make it more tantalising, that pet is near to another which can (just) be freed without a special weapon.

The first episode of the game can be downloaded for free at [[http://www.3drealms.com/bash/index.html Apogee's official website]]. No relation to the pinball machine ''Pinball/MonsterBash'' or any virtual re-creations of it.

* {{Gorn}}: It's a toss-up as to whether this or ''RiseOfTheTriad'' has more blood.

''Monster Bash'' was a sidescrolling platformer released by Apogee Software for the PC in 1993. The game stars [[KidHero 10-year-old]] Johnny Dash (Probably no relation to JohnnyCash) on a quest to rescue his puppy, Tex, from the evil [[FluffyTheTerrible Count Chuck]], who plans to turn all the pets of the Day World into monsters. Armed with only a slingshot and an endless supply of rocks, Johnny must travel through 28 levels of undead horrors.

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!!'''This work contains examples of:'''

* BratsWithSlingshots

* CaptainErsatz: Count Chuck obviously takes several elements from both {{Dracula}} and [[Film/{{Nosferatu}} Count Orlok]]. Igor is pretty much directly lifted from the title character in the 1958 version of Film/TheFly.

* LockedDoor: A variation: while there may be no literal door at the end of the level, all the pets still must be rescued before moving on.

The first episode of the game can be downloaded for free at [[http://www.3drealms.com/bash/index.html Apogee's official website]].

* NamesTheSame: Apart from the horror theme, bears ''no'' resemblance to the coin-op or pinball machine of the same name.

* BreatherLevel: Part Two Level 4 is a very straightforward level with no hidden areas and simple jumping puzzles, and it comes right after two complex maze-like levels and a boss fight.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Several. The title screen sounds similar to "The MonsterMash", the first stage contains the intro to "Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor", the penultimate stage of episode 2 has a small snippet from "In the Hall of the Mountain King", and the fight music against Igor bears similarity to "Flight of the Bumblebee".

* ThatOneLevel: Stage 3-3 contains some of the hardest jumps in the game onto moving platforms taht are very difficult to sopt incoming.

* AIBreaker: The evil twin tries to jump around a lot if you crawl--but since he starts right under an overhang to make sure you walk through his puddle, if you immediately crouch and shoot at him rapidly you can knock off most of his health while he's bumping his head.

* HelpfulMook: There are certain areas in the castle stage that can only be reached by getting a boost from the Ogres' GroundPound attack. More common throughout the game are living boots that [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom kick you across the stage]]. Sometimes they're meant to knock you into spikes, but other times they'll help you across gaps.

* {{Homage}}: One of the mooks in episode 3 is clearly an homage to the [[{{Alien}} Xenomorph]].

* TheJimmyHartVersion: Several. The title screen sounds similar to "The MonsterMash", the first stage contains the intro to "Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor", the penultimate stage of episode 2 has a small snippet from "In the Hall of the Mountain King", and the fight music against Igor bears similarity to "Flight of the Bumblebee".